Maintaining reliable communication during space missions is critical. Future missions—especially crewed missions to Mars—are ...

This Collection invites submissions of original research into methods that support the deployment of optical communication systems, driving advancements in high-speed data transmission and network ...

A Falcon 9 rocket carrying the Starlink 6-103 mission successfully launches from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida, on Feb. 24, 2026. Following liftoff, the Falcon ...

In space exploration, long-distance optical links can now be used to transmit images, films and data from space probes to Earth using light. But in order for the signals to reach all the way and not ...

China’s researchers have built an optical interconnect system that dramatically speeds up distributed AI ...

As Europe invests billions in sovereign space infrastructure, industry experts warn that achieving long-term autonomy will require Europe to scale optical communications so that its space systems can ...

Since the Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded in 2005 for the invention of optical frequency combs, they have become a core technology in information systems. An optical frequency comb consists of a ...

The takeaway: NASA's latest crewed lunar mission promises not only another giant leap in human space travel but a dramatic upgrade in how we experience it from Earth. With Artemis II now underway, the ...

The transmission of optical information through random scattering media is a major challenge in optics, biomedical imaging, ...